Newsquest has launched a part-paid part-free weekly newspaper for Darlington and south west Durham. The team behind The Northern Echo has revived a weekly sister newspaper - the Despatch - which has not been published for 31 years. The launch is...

Steve Goodman, GroupM UK managing director of print trading, has said that newspapers could enter a new golden age as advertisers shun “murky, fraudulent” online advertising in favour of the “safe, trusted, quality media space” which newspapers provide. Writing for...

The Liverpool Echo has been praised in the House of Lords for a long running investigation which revealed the neglect and sexual abuse suffered by a child placed into care in Liverpool during the 1960s. Liberal Democrat peer Lord Storey...

Freedom of expression and the ability of journalists to expose wrongdoing must be safeguarded as the new data protection regime comes into force, Lord Black of Brentwood said in a speech in the House of Lords this week. In the...

Responding to the High Court’s judgement today on the News Media Association’s case for judicial review of the Press Recognition Panel’s decision to recognise Impress, the NMA said: “We are deeply disappointed by the Court’s decision but maintain that...

Culture Secretary Karen Bradley has acknowledged that more than 90 per cent of the press will never sign up to a regulator recognised by the Press Recognition Panel beacsue of concerns around press freedom. In a Digital, Culture, Media and...

Lidl gets much better return on investment from press, radio and TV advertising than programmatic which is being oversold, the supermarket's head of media Sam Gaunt told a conference for marketers this week. “The marketing industry has been guilty of...

The Independent Press Standards Organisation has announced three appointments to its Complaints Committee, Nazir Afzal OBE, Miranda Winram and Andrew Pettie. Nazir Afzal is one of the best known names in the legal profession, IPSO said in a press release,...

Ad revenues across the Mail titles have grown over the past year, powered by strong growth for MailOnline which more than offset declines in print ad revenues, according to a trading update from the Daily Mail and General Trust...